Posted: 10/21/2016 3:23:02 PM EDT
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Awful, just embarrassingly awful. For the audience, the actors, the directors, most definitely the writers, the agents, the caterers, the drivers. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quote History Quoted:
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Awful, just embarrassingly awful. For the audience, the actors, the directors, most definitely the writers, the agents, the caterers, the drivers.
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Forgettable like a fart
13 October 2016 | by Chuck Boulder (New Zealand)
(1 star out of 10)
"Unlike what many of the positive critics have already said about Swiss Army Man, I found it quite pretentious that the movie even tried to venture into a pseudo philosophical study on life when in reality it multiplies the running fart gag to infinity. If you think Adam Sandler sense of humour was pathetically childish and repetitive, you are going to have a blast with this one. Or not. Whether you consider this film to be a comedy or an existential comedy drama (which it tries and fails to be quite miserably), the type of humour is so idiotic and uninspiring it will leave you with one regret which is to have given this overrated turd a chance. The subject of life and death deserves a better treatment and clearly the filmmaker behind Swiss Army Man did not know what direction to give his movie so he simply opted to give up and indulged into the crass level. My word is: don't believe the hype around it. This movie has no subtlety at all, it is not moving, the monologues are utterly clueless, the characters depth has not been explored because there is nothing to explore. I still don't see how so many viewers can see it as a light-hearted lesson about life and society when it is everything but. It is a running gag and the joke is on you. Idiocracy (2006) was not a great comedy by any stretch of imagination but it was unpretentious. In comparison, Swiss Army Man is the definition of idiocracy. Farts can only take you so far.
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